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In a recent paper (see [7]), a quasi-nonlocal coupling method was introduced to seamlessly bridge a nonlocal diffusion model with the classical local diffusion counterpart in a one-dimensional space. The proposed coupling framework removes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Amanda Gute , Xingjie Helen Li

We consider a fully discrete and explicit scheme for the mean curvature flow of boundaries, based on an elementary diffusion step and a precise redistancing operation. We give an elementary convergence proof for the scheme under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Antonin Chambolle , Daniele De Gennaro , Massimiliano Morini

We study some new dynamical systems where the corresponding piecewise linear flow is neither time reversible nor measure preserving. We create a dissipative system by starting with a finite polysquare translation surface, and then modifying…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-29 J. Beck , W. W. L. Chen , Y. Yang

Error estimates are proved for an evolving surface finite element semi-discretization for anisotropic mean curvature flow of closed surfaces. For the geometric surface flow, a system coupling the anisotropic evolution law to parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Klaus Deckelnick , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

In this article, a new method for segmentation and restoration of images on two-dimensional surfaces is given. Active contour models for image segmentation are extended to images on surfaces. The evolving curves on the surfaces are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Heike Benninghoff , Harald Garcke

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

In ecological studies of pattern formation, models of the competitive-diffusion type are generally singularly perturbed, and the numerical approximation of such models is challenging. In this paper, we present finite element discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Xianping Li , Woinshet D. Mergia , Kailash C. Patidar

In this paper we investigate the flow of surfaces by a class of symmetric functions of the principal curvatures with a mixed volume constraint. We consider compact surfaces without boundary that can be written as a graph over a sphere. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 David Hartley

This paper presents a finite volume method for simulating two-phase flows using a level set approach coupled with volume of fluid method capable of simulating sharp fluid interfaces. The efficiency of the method is a result of the fact that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos G. Lyras , Jack Lee

This paper is devoted to the design and analysis of a numerical algorithm for approximating solutions of a degenerate cross-diffusion system, which models particular instances of taxis-type migration processes under local sensing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for the fractional diffusion and diffusion-wave equations involving a Caputo fractional derivative in time. We develop two "simple" fully discrete schemes based on the Galerkin finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

We propose and analyze an energy-stable fully discrete parametric approximation for Willmore flow of hypersurfaces in two and three space dimensions. We allow for the presence of spontaneous curvature effects and for open surfaces with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

Accurate representation of interfaces and flux exchange is vital for coupled multiphysics simulations across a broad range of applications. Currently, coupling approaches are limited by the underlying discretization or to specific physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Ethan Huff , Savio J. Poovathingal

When extended to two-phase flows, weakly compressible models lead to a non-conservative system, which precludes its treatment using standard finite volume techniques. In this paper, a novel HLLC-type path-conservative scheme is formulated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ashley Melvin , J. C. Mandal

Some hyperbolic systems are known to include implicit preservation of differential constraints: these are for example the time conservation of the curl or the divergence of a vector that appear as an implicit constraint. In this article, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Vincent Perrier

This paper presents a method for computing two-dimensional constant mean curvature surfaces. The method in question uses the variational aspect of the problem to implement an efficient algorithm. In principle it is a flow like method in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Metzger

We present a finite element scheme for fractional diffusion problems with varying diffusivity and fractional order. We consider a symmetric integral form of these nonlocal equations defined on general geometries and in arbitrary bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Wenyu Lei , George Turkiyyah , Omar Knio

The appearance of a geometric flow in the conservation law of particle number in classical particle diffusion and in the conservation law of probability in quantum mechanics is discussed in the geometrical environment of a two-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Naohisa Ogawa

We study two fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface, given a smooth potential with polynomial growth. In particular we establish optimal order error bounds for a (fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales